A little boy is on a search for the perfect gift for his mother, navigating the streets of 1890s Vienna, meeting new people, and continuing to trade one gift for another.

A little boy is on a search for the perfect gift for his mother, navigating the streets of 1890s Vienna, meeting new people, and continuing to trade one gift for another.

When I was a boy, my father often pulled me aside to convey lessons intended to build what we generally refer to as 'character'. Often his advice was very simple - work hard, think for yourself, do right by others - but I believe those lessons provided the foundation for everything that has followed in my life. Now that I'm a dad myself, I wanted to put them down in one place, ...(展开全部)

When I was a boy, my father often pulled me aside to convey lessons intended to build what we generally refer to as 'character'. Often his advice was very simple - work hard, think for yourself, do right by others - but I believe those lessons provided the foundation for everything that has followed in my life. Now that I'm a dad myself, I wanted to put them down in one place, ...(展开全部)

The English debut of a bestselling novelist, kin to Penelope Fitzgerald and Louis Begley in style and subtlety. At eighty, Max Opass is still reeling from the death of his wife a year earlier. His two grown-up children live abroad with their own families, his son in Bolivia, his daughter in Japan: he writes awkwardly to his daughter with the news of his humdrum activities and ...(展开全部)

At 80, Max Opass is still reeling from the death of his wife a year earlier. He decides to have his wife's portrait painted from his favourite photographs of her and picks five arbritary phone numbers under "artists". The story follows Max's comical and moving encounters with the artists.

He’s the swashbuckling world traveler and legendary investor who made his fortune before he was forty. Now the bestselling author of A Bull in China, Hot Commodities , and Adventure Capitalist shares a heartfelt, indispensable guide for his daughters (and all young investors) to find success and happiness. In A Gift to My Children , Jim Rogers offers advice with his tradema...(展开全部)

He’s the swashbuckling world traveler and legendary investor who made his fortune before he was forty. Now the bestselling author of A Bull in China, Hot Commodities , and Adventure Capitalist shares a heartfelt, indispensable guide for his daughters (and all young investors) to find success and happiness. In A Gift to My Children , Jim Rogers offers advice with his tradema...(展开全部)

约翰·伦纳德（John Leonard, 1939—2008），知名美国文艺评论家，《纽约时报》每日书评人，他的评论文章广泛刊登在全美各家主流刊物上，包括《纽约书评》、《名利场》、《哈珀》杂志、《纽约》杂志等。2006年，伦纳德被全美书评人协会授予伊凡·桑德罗夫终身成就奖。

羽生結弦とCLAMPの夢のコラボレーション絵本『GIFT』。 東京ドーム公演『GIFT』を成功させ、さらなる活躍が注目を集めている羽生結弦と、世界で活躍する創作集団CLAMPの協力タッグが実現。 羽生結弦が自身で紡いだ文章にCLAMPがイラストを描き１冊の絵本になります。 『GIFT』という物語は、公演に続き絵本として新しい形になり、羽生結弦とCLAMPから、世界中のファンへ向けたスペシャルなプレゼントである絵本『GIFT』となります。 この奇跡のコラボレーションに、すでに世界中のファンから待望と期待の熱い声が寄せられています。 初版限定特典として、ポストカードが2枚封入決定！